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Iran: Political Prisoners Held with Violent Criminals

Human Rights Watch: The confinement of political prisoners in Iran together with violent criminals endangers their lives, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...

Mullahs tighten grip as US looks to Iran

Scotland on Sunday: SABRE-rattling by George W Bush against Iran as the world’s primary state sponsor of terrorism has given the mullahs who run...

Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 04 – A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily...

Iran human rights record ‘to be loathed’ — Rice

AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up Washington's verbal assault on Iran on Thursday, saying the hardline Islamic regime's treatment of its...

Iran party raid leaves dozens injured, 9 arrested

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 01 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a home in Karaj (central Iran), host to a coed party, arresting nine...

Helsinki Commission To Focus on Iran

New York Sun: The new chairman of the Helsinki Commission says he plans to use the Cold War institution to highlight Iranian human rights...

Journalist has spent 5,000 days in prison

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned the hounding by the authorities of Taghi Rahmani, who since 1981 has spent a total of...

UN Urges Iran to Halt Execution of Young Offenders

Reuters: A United Nations human rights body called on Iran on Friday to abolish the death penalty as well as amputation, flogging and stoning...

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Iran’s Regime Rejects Retrial Request by Protester Sentenced to Death

On Wednesday, September 2, human rights media outlets reported the continued detention and interrogation of opponents of Iran's regime,...

Corruption in Iran’s Ports Reaches the Regime’s Parliament

The corruption case in Iran’s ports has once again become one of the controversial issues in the regime’s parliament....

Heavy Collapse in Iranian Workers’ Purchasing Power Over the Past 10 Years

In recent years, and particularly in the months following the recent war, workers’ “real wages” in Iran have experienced...

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